Masonry Magazine June 1965 Page. 15
Marcus, Walker Promoted
Promotion of Ashton D. Marcus to general sales manager and Donald R. Walker to marketing manager at OMARK Industries, Inc. has been announced by Guy E. Sabin, vice president and general manager of U. S. Operations.
Marcus, with OMARK since 1962, has previously served as marketing services manager, welding products manager and most recently marketing manager. In his new role, he will be responsible for the sales performance of the U. S. field organization and will oversee the marketing activities of the firm's 36 regional and branch factory offices.
Walker first joined OMARK in 1957 and has held a number of increasingly important posts in personnel, advertising, market research and sales promotion. Since 1963, he has been distribution manager for the Bonded Products division of OMARK. He will now be in charge of the home office marketing staff and will direct program planning and development. Both men will report directly to Sabin in their new capacities.
Marcus assumes the position formerly held by David Palin who is moving to Europe to fill the job of European operations manager for OMARK's overseas sales subsidiary, OMARK International, Ltd.
Practical Approach Taken By Phoenix Program
The Valley Garden Center's "Theme Garden" took on a new look thanks to some fourteen young men of the Phoenix Bricklaying and Stonemasonry Joint Apprenticeship program. Under the watchful eye of instructors Bernie Farnum and Lawrence Meskimen, the group constructed two concrete masonry walls and a planter at the Valley Garden Center patio located at 1809 North 15th Avenue, Phoenix. More than 2,000 concrete block units went into the serpentine wall, the planter and the 40-ft. protection wall constructed on the east side of the patio.
Special construction care had to be taken to assure an attractive block design necessary to blend in with existing hyperbolic paraboloid sun shades, exposed aggregate patios and walkways and the lava-rock waterfall and pool.
Brooks Billings, coordinator of Apprentices said that such civic projects as the "Theme Garden" gives addi-
ELECT STERRETT PRESIDENT
Sales promotion and research were the main topics of discussion at the 24th annual convention of the Vermiculite Institute of Chicago, April 24-29, at the Grand Hotel, Point Clear, Alabama. D. J. Boone, president of the institute and manager of the marketing department of Zonolite Division, W. R. Grace & Co., presided.
He reported substantial increases, industry-wide, in sales of vermiculite insulation, concrete aggregate, agricultural products, and vermiculite Type-MK fireproofing. Combined sales of vermiculite loose-fill attic insulation and water-repellent vermiculite for insulating masonry walls led the parade in total volume.
Harold K. Sterrett, president of Tennessee Zonolite Co. at Nashville, was elected president to succeed Boone. Edward R. Murphy was returned as managing director; R. W. Sterrett, as treasurer.
L. P. Hollis of High Point, North Carolina, and R. B. Moran of Dallas, Texas, were named to the board of directors. Hold-over members, besides Sterrett, are W. V. Culver of Seattle, (continued on page 28)
WASHINGTON, D.C. CONTEST
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Sales Increased by NATCO
First quarter operating results of Natco Corporation, structural clay products manufacturers, released recently show increased sales and a reduced loss in comparison with the same period last year.
Net sales and other income for the three months ended March 31, 1965, totaled $2,696,206. This compares with sales of $2,609,610 during the same period in 1964.
The company posted a first-quarter operating loss this year of $162,126, as against an operating loss of $183,778 during the first three months of 1964. The 1964 loss was reduced to $94,198, however, when company property was sold at a profit of $89,580.